KINKS FROM ENGLAND STAR AS ROCK GROUP

March 4, 1972

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It was good.to see and hear the Kinks back at Carnegie Hall Thursday night. Their last appearance there was a musical and personal fiasco of such diMensions that it was easy. to question whether they would survive as at group.

Fortunately they have, and remain one of the best of the surviving English rock ‘n’ roll. bands from the :salad days in the mid‐sixties. Spurred by the singing and the songs of guitarist Ray Davies, the Kinks‐have staked out a unique territory for their music—one that bouces merrily back and forth between English music hall satire, Gilbert and Sullivanesque patter; hard rock rhythms and, surprisingly, some extremely poetic lyrics.

They stuck close to their recorded material at Carnegie, with Davies occasionally interspersing a chorus of “You Are My Sunshine,” “Hava Nagila” and the like, and finished the regular set with perhaps one of their best‐known hits, “Victo.ria.” It was a good'shoW from some of rock's finest perfor‐. mers.

DON HECKMAN.

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